A light south westerly wind that turned into more of a moderate south westerly as the day progressed. Water temperature a warm 24 degrees C, viz between 8 – 10m with a south – north current, swirling at times but not unmanageable at all. An easy flat launch from Umkomaas with a high tide at […]
Ahead of the south westerly that came through, we had a brilliant single tank dive with some macro sightings of an osscilated snake eel, green paper fish, pipefish, large green turtle, some stunning nudibranches and of course, we were sung to by what sounded like a massive pod of bottlenose dolphins that we just could […]
As we write this, we STILL have at least 6 raggies at Cathedral, a few at Raggie Cave and Chunnel dive sites. These animals have now stayed on for an extra 4 months and it most certainly looks like they will remain here for 2nd year in a row and await the arrival of the […]
We returned from a very successful Beneath the Sea dive show a few days back, hence no blog reports. The show was just outside New York and is the largest dive consumer show in USA. The trip was rather hectic, having just come off a very busy long weekend prior to the trip and then […]
Aliwal has great conditions today. A moderate south westerly wind has come through this morning, even though a moderate north easterly was forecast. Just goes to show that we have to be our own weatherman at times. Launch conditions are favourable, light S – N current with decent viz.
Conditions today are superb. We awoke to a very glassy ocean, small surf launch and it looks like great viz at this point. Temperature has risen to 23 degrees C again and its all looking like summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At last we have a shift in wind direction and a shift in the current and are happy to say that we have warm water again with great viz. Currently we have a light south westerly wind blowing, water temp of 23 degrees C and viz of around 15m. We had very welcome rain last […]
At the moment we have an unsettled ocean. Viz is around 8m and the water temperature has dropped to an icy 20 degrees C. We are expecting a south westerly wind tomorrow, which will hopefully shift the current and bring in cleaner, warmer water. Diving is still however great, despite the unsettled ocean.
Yesterday was a big and busy day as I was interviewed for a coffee table book, due for release prior to World Cup 2010. The photo shoot was yesterday, along with the dives and underwater photo shoot. It is a great honour for me to be included in this book of prominent people of KwaZulu-Natal and […]
Despite the surge and swell, we had an amazing double tank dive. First dive to Cathedral we got 5 raggies inside Cathedral. Having the sand flying about made the dive all the more eerie as the sharks were pushed closer to us with the overhead swell. One large male was particularly inquisitive and made many […]